Once an Everyday Store

A look at a Central Jersey neighborhood supermarket

I write fairly often about supermarkets. I find them interesting as a business and as a retail form. And their history is in a lot of ways a microcosm of the history of America’s built environment.

Last year, for Strong Towns, I wrote about the history of the supermarkets in my hometown of Flemington, New Jersey, and how their trajectories over the decad…